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The Politics of Truth

By Michel Foucault

Book information

Publisher
Semiotext(e)
Year
1997
ISBN
1570270279, 9781570270277, 1584350393, 9781584350392
LCC
B2430.F723 P65 1997
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5790625 bytes)
Series
Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series
Pages
240\115
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In 1784, the German newspaper Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its audience to reply to the question "What is Enlightenment?" Immanuel Kant took the opportunity to investigate the purported truths and assumptions of his age. Two hundred years later, Michel Foucault wrote a response to Kant's initial essay, positioning Kant as the initiator of the discourse and critique of modernity. The Politics of Truth takes this initial encounter between Foucault and Kant, as a framework for its selection of unpublished essays and transcripts of lectures Foucault gave in America and France between 1978 and 1984, the year of his death. Ranging from reflections on the Enlightenment and revolution to a consideration of the Frankfurt School, this collection offers insight into the topics preoccupying Foucault as he worked on what would be his last body of published work, the three-volume History of Sexuality. It also offers what is in a sense the most "American" moment of Foucault's thinking, for it was in America that he realized the necessity of tying his own thought to that of the Frankfurt School.

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